It is Ankara!

to tell Erdogan to drink.

alcohol is forbidden in islam. erdogan would like to see turkey turn into a radical muslim country like iran or saudi arabia where alcohol is banned.

Must resist making jokes about ....... urrrhghggh ! About sunni allowing breast feeding strangers !

Nowhere in the article does it state that Istanbul is the capital.

I had more in mind for Erdogan to emulate Socrates (hemlock).

Friendly sharia in a well cut suit.

if I drink Ayren, will you be my friend, Yogert and its watered down drink was not at all Turkish, it goes back before any Turks plundered their way into the civilized world. Yogurt was invented by Armenians and since the early immigrants to USA were turkish speaking genocide survivor Armenians the word Yogurt instead of Madzoon stuck.

The Greeks have wonderful yogurt, and wonderful yogurt drinks. A lot better than the crap you can find in Turkey. I have been to Turkey at least fifteen times in the last five years, and I always make sure to subsist on crackers and cheese -- which I bring with me. I wouldn't touch crappy Turkish food with a ten foot pole. How's your colon cancer doing, Erdogan? Metastasized much? Sob. What a pity. Hand me a Kleenex, someone, please -- I'm about to cry tears of joy.

and hinders the Holy Spirit in a person and opens the person up to demon influence and/or possession which leads to criminality. Drunkards do not enter God's eternal kingdom. Any amount of alcohol more than is medicinal puts a person in peril of eternal separation from HaShem. New wine that Yehoshua of Nazareth drank was not fermented because fermentation takes time and it is impossible that the Jewish Sacrificial Lamb would ever get drunk in his entire lifetime since He was sinless. The problem with liquid milk drinks in the USA is a chemical added to prolong shelf life that causes ulcerative colitis according to Dr. Bill Campbell Douglass II's book, "The Raw Truth About Milk". If Turkey's liquid yogurt does not contain that chemical it is a good idea to drink it, as Erdogan advises. But it is fattening and filtered water is a better drink for most of the day.

1846 Izmir. Smyrna Anatoli Prokopp beer. 1861 Ottoman Beer Act. 1888 Istanbul's 31 beerhouse. 1890 Swiss Bomonti Beer Factory. 1892 Thessaloniki Olympos Beer factory by Allatini,Mizrahi,Fernandez (Jewish). Germans, Austrians and Hungarians had built beer factories in Istanbul and Izmir too. Ottoman Beer consumption between 1913-1914 was 10 million liters (40 beerhouse in Istanbul) which was bigger than 1940's Turkish Republic.

that if anything rots your brains worse than alcohol, it is ayran.

Turkey's growing divide between the secularists and its growing Islamicists (though not yet Islamists), will create an undercurrent of instability which will manifest itself wihin the next 20 years. This eventual social and cultural disharmony will benefit Israel, which though going through our own identity troubles currently, by then will have overcome it and be a very strong and confident state. Turkey's domestic tension will ghen provide an opportunity to rectify Britain's injustice and create an independent Kurdistan and provide autonomy for Assyrians and Aramaic-speaking people (numbering some 5-7 million). Also the Armenian territories lost to Turkey will be returned to Armenia and provide them with sea access. This changes will strenghen non-Arab and non-Islamic identities and forces in our region. Turkey's weakness will be our strength.

Turkey's growing divide between the secularists and its growing Islamicists (though not yet Islamists), will create an undercurrent of instability which will manifest itself wihin the next 20 years. This eventual social and cultural disharmony will benefit Israel, which though going through our own identity troubles currently, by then will have overcome it and be a very strong and confident state. Turkey's domestic tension will ghen provide an opportunity to rectify Britain's injustice and create an independent Kurdistan and provide autonomy for Assyrians and Aramaic-speaking people (numbering some 5-7 million). Also the Armenian territories lost to Turkey will be returned to Armenia and provide them with sea access. This changes will strenghen non-Arab and non-Islamic identities and forces in our region. Turkey's weakness will be our strength.

And I agree it is best with soda water and a bit of mint and garlic. YUMMY YUMMY in my TUMMY

Sounds like Mr Erdogan has been on the booze !!

"I drink whatever I like and drink as much as I want." It shows, honey. It shows.

Is he promoting yogurt now? That is better than preaching death and "Shahadat". I hope he is not going to start banning alcohol.